I have for a long time been an activist in the world of sharing technology and culture.
New York is my home and I get twitchy when I leave.
I would like to see FreedomBoxes everywhere they are needed. That is to say, everywhere.
James Vasile is a long time user and advocate for sharing technology
and creative media. He is the Executive Director of the FreedomBox
Foundation, personal servers running a free software operating system,
with free applications designed to create and preserve personal
privacy. He is also Senior Counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center
and a member of the Board at Open Source Matters, the non-profit
behind Joomla.
James holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Columbia Law School, where he was
a member of the law review and a Stone Scholar. He also has a
bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Fordham
University. He spent several years in the litigation department of
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he worked on a range of cases and dealt
with a variety of new media issues.
James has also contributed code and documentation to numerous FOSS
software projects.
